Wicked Girls getting their mail

So yesterday I went down to the office to pick up my package and sort things out. I had emailed about 3-day package hold thing, in context with my mobility problems, and how a strict 3 days is just not going to work for me. The ensuing conversation ("Are you the one who just emailed?") was enlightening and in the good way.

• I have no reason to worry


• I am not the problem


• The email was sent to everybody and was very this-means-you, but it didn't mean me


• The lady who doesn't pick up her packages for a month, and after being called about it twice neither picks them up nor makes arrangements, is the problem


• Some people can only come in one day a week due to job schedule (she brought this up, not me) and that's totally cool


• They will call me if I have a package I haven't picked up for about a week


• They call before sending things back


• The maintenance dude will check out those stairs

The Wicked Girls t-shirt is wonderful; if you're into displaying "Wicked Girl Saving Myself" on your shirt, go and see when seanan_mcguire is doing the next shirt run. (This is done through a specialty printer and somewhat by hand rather than an online POD place because the printing quality of POD prices often suck, and are far more limited in size/quality of the substrate shirts.)

Feelings Jam in the Horn Pile

I suspect that the ultimate answer to this problem is going to be "lol, code it yourself, Lunatic", but hear me out.

I am looking for a multifacted mood measurement service. I was, up until sometime in the last hour, a member of Moodscope. More about that in a bit. I'm looking for a replacement.

I want to track my mood on a daily basis. I want to be able to look at trends over time. I want to be able to track my mood based on its components, because there is rarely just one thing going on in isolation; this is why DW/LJ mood does not really work to actually get a picture of what's going on with my mood. (Shout-out to dwell, who could make "horny" say so much.) Numerically rating a select panel of emotions was working reasonably well for me. I need to be able to alter the preset emotions if it is not asking me about the specific thread that has come to my attention. I need to be able to set thresholds for alarm on any given emotion, if it is a numerical scale -- for example, on a scale of 0-10 for alertness, anything under say a 2 is alarming, and a 10 is also alarming, especially in conjunction with a high anger, irritability, excitement, and ambition. Being able to leave a note about why this was going on ("Work was awesome!" "Manager & Overlady are awesome; new email app, much less awesome" "Broke again :(" "FUCKING SHOES.") is also a good plan. Data portability, also excellent.

Now, the squishy bits:

Site should not enforce the gender binary. At a minimum, it should have a "decline to state/other" option, as this lets me judge for myself whether I should pick that, or whether I'm feeling mostly cisgendered today. (Moodscope fails on this axis, and my record low mood of Moodscope 27% is associated directly with this fuckup of theirs.)

Site should not lecture me on what I should do with myself if it thinks my mood needs fixing. I need to be the one to determine that. If I am determined that my mood does not, in fact, need fixing, well-meant advice on how to accomplish that actually piss me the fuck off, elevating my mood in the wrong direction. (Again, Moodscope and I don't get along; my mood was at a nice calm 51% -- all negative factors but one zeroed out, but very few of the positive factors lit up -- braindrained and chilling after work -- it dropped to 37% after reading the condescending advice about how to lift my motherfucking mood and that I would need to gather my friends by me in this time of crisis. Taking the evaluation the second time and seeing how actually much the site pissed me off resulted in my annoyed email to their support becoming a flounce email.)

Site should not use colors in a way that feels wrong to me. I can see using red for happiness. I cannot get behind using blue for anger. (Moodscope had blue swirled cards for the "bad" emotions, which I found pleasant and restful in appearance, and red swirled cards for the "good" emotions, which I found disturbing and unrestful.) Site should not have an obnoxious user interface (tiny checkboxes and radio buttons are irritating; fucking interactive animations replacing a checkbox thing, MORE IRRITATING).

Site needs very much not to congratulate me on dangerously high factors, such as attentiveness (can we spell 'hypervigilance', folks?) or any other thing that I define as a possible danger point. Furthermore, anyone who congratulates an anorexic on their weight loss can please go fuck off and die. (Moodscope did not do that one. Fortunately. Or I'd be even more stabby. But it's in the same family of "all right, does someone have a stiletto I can borrow" rage.)

So. Recommendations?

Mood Panda does not suit -- it is a numeric one-factor thing.
http://www.findingoptimism.com/ looks promising, and has a free 14 day trial.
https://www.trackyourhappiness.org/ didn't look entirely like what I was looking for.
http://belikeben.com/ is the right general idea, but in the wrong direction.
http://moodjam.com/ is not even loading for me right now (which may be not its fault, given my computer and Comcast are conspiring to fuck shit up).

16 tweets for 2012-3-29

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Thursday, 0051: Checked about mail. They will call me about packages & this is aimed at a few egregious cases.
• Thursday, 1042: @seananmcguire They do appreciate meat. A hen with the nickname "Carnivorous Cal" is a great house pet... #mychildhoodwasatypical
• Thursday, 1120: @mmmarthur @tiferet93 Being prone to panic and being sort of out of sync (respectively) does not diminish their brilliance!
• Thursday, 1933: @google What the actual fuck? http://firecat.dreamwidth.org/768258.html
• Thursday, 2016: Deleted my Moodscope account. I feel much better.
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Notes from March 29, 2012:

What happens when Max goes to college? ASU? GCC?
How does the breakup happen?
Max goes off to college, drifts out of contact, eventually he does not have quality time, priorities, mild angst.
There is a formal "breakup" but there is ex-sex.

THE DOCTOR TIMEYWIMEY BING WHEN THERE'S STUFF IS THE ANTITHESIS OF INFODUMP!

Ex-sex: Amber gets knocked up = Morgan. This explains why Susan was knocking heads together. Did they talk about kids? Raven stopped having sex with Max already.